Good ICO maker

Post by **Dare2** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 9:06 am

As you know, .ico files hold one or more icon bitmaps.

All the ico editors I have seen allow creating/editing of one image.

I was wondering if anyone knew of a good (hopefully free) icon maker that edited/added/removed icons in an .ico file.

(I would like to create 64x64, 32x32 and 16x16 so all appear reasonable in the places where they show (eg, titlebar) without the lossy or dithering effects that sometimes show).

Optimistically, thanks in advance!

J. Baker · Post by **J. Baker** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 9:17 am

http://towofu.s5.xrea.com/soft/e-index.html

Post by **Dare2** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 9:24 am

Heya J.Baker,

That was fast! Thanks.

Hows the KoolMove-ing going?

GreenGiant · Post by **GreenGiant** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 9:38 am

I've used *this* before and it lets you do that. Its as simple as going into a menu and clicking something like 'Add image' every time you want a new one, all in the same ico file. And most usefully for me it lets you import the graphics as bmp or something then just save them as ico. So you can use any image editor to create or resize an icon then pack it all into one file.

Post by **Dare2** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 10:02 am

Hi GreenGiant.

Thanks.

going from ico rags to ico riches here!

GreenGiant · Post by **GreenGiant** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 10:08 am

going from ico rags to ico riches

Now there's a phrase I don't hear very often

Karbon · Post by **Karbon** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 1:18 pm

Google for snIconEdit - it is free (and very good)

Post by **Dare2** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 1:51 pm

Hi Karbon,

Eventually got it (they appear to have had some site troubles) and it is very good. Thank you.

PS and Edit:

Anyone else after this, the link that worked was:

http://www.snidesoft.com/Updates/SnIco1/icoedit.zip

via:

http://www.worldssp.net/software/SnIco-Edit.htm

J. Baker · Post by **J. Baker** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 10:16 pm

Dare2 wrote:Heya J.Baker,

That was fast! Thanks. Hows the KoolMove-ing going?

It's going great.

Sorry for the delayed response.

Kanati2 · Post by **Kanati2** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 4:33 pm

I'm quite partial to iconcool myself. Don't know what everyone else suggested but that's my choice.

Post by **Dare2** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 10:43 pm

Actually I just pulled down an ISO with tons of opensource and free stuff on it. iconcool was one of the apps, I'll try it.

Edit:
My bad - it was not iconcool on the disk. So I'll look it up.